I've come back to this video many times over the past few years when I need a nostalgia fix. I wish there were more of these on UA-cam. I left Michigan in '71. It will always be my home town, and these videos provide me a home town fix. Thanks for posting. Lansing is Lake Lansing, Lansing Eastern Class of '71, Gladmer/Michigan Theaters, Free Spirit emporium, Arbaughs, Knapps, and many other things associated with the late 60s.
I was born in Lansing in 1948 and went to Mt. Hope Elementary, Walter French JHS, Everett HS, U of M and MSU. Been away from MI and all over the world since 1975 but Lansing's still my home. It keeps calling me back. Still have family and great friends there. It's fallen on hard times since the auto industry crash in the '80's and '90's, but it's still full of great people. Will go back when I die.
Construction started in '63 and it was opened in December '70, so according to that and the model years of the cars, I would say that around '67 would be the year. Saw a Renault 10 and they started selling in the fall of '67 as a '68 model. (My parents bought a '69 R10.)
At 1:40, the car turns south on Cherry from Kalamazoo. If it were a block east on River St, I would get to see the house that my Dad grew up in during the '30s and '40s, but is no longer there. I've never seen it. The bare trees, overcast sky and twilight lighting gives the film a cold & nostalgic feel. I've been in Arizona for 50 years now and we very rarely get cold or overcast, but in my youth, cold and and overcast is what I knew. Grandpa spent 35 years at Olds starting in about 1925 and and played industrial league baseball for them.
Awesome video to bring back memories of my hometown. Born in Lansing back in 1952. Everett HS 1970 grad. My late father was the Deputy Fire Chief. Worked in the LFD 1950 until he retired in 1979. My mother was a secretary at Michigan State University at the Veterinary College. Both my parents were from Lansing. My father was born in Lansing in 1923 and my mother in 1926. I recognized the late model 1968 Cutlass in the video as my parents had that same model. Thanks for sharing this video of old Lansing Mi!
I like the fact that this film is just that: film. Not video tape or digital. The fact that the video quality and color are below par (by today's standards anyway) only adds to the look-back-in-time feel of this upload. Another thing that's cool about this film is that there are all sorts of local businesses open. Lots of them are gone now. At least Art's Bar is still there. :)
Agree! Film starts 2 Blocks from my Great Grandmas home, 6 from my Grandmas. Both gone now like 99% the Businesses. I rode my Bike on 496 few months before it opened, now the Highway looks about same as in the video as they are rebuilding it
Wow, can tell it's good ol' Lansing with those fabulous Oldsmobiles. My dad, uncles, and aunt, and practically everybody I knew, had a relative or friend that was a factory rat. My dad worked at Fisher Body, painting the Cutlass line. We lived on Rosemary St, there were two Olds plants, and the Verlinden Ave. Fisher Body plant where within walking distance of our house. So, so sad. When Olds ended production in 2004, closing the plants, and eventually tearing them down. A piece of history only in our memories now. I still have my dad's Fisher Body work badge from 1958. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
You can see the movie title pretty clearly at 3:36: "The Boston Strangler" (released October 1968) -- Tony Curtis & Henry Fonda. Hard to know exactly when this was shot since there is a bit of snow but no Christmas decorations.
notice Renault R 10 at 5.43..southbound on N. Washington. We had a burgandy R 10 back in the day....Lived on north end and my Dad ran a gas station at 229 W Grand River.....which is now a pot shop
My oldest Daughter lives in Howell Michigan She was born and raised here in Fl My Husband and I go to visit My Daughter and her Husband once or twice a year been to this town Im pretty sure it changed alot since the 70es
So close .. The video starts going south to Kalamazoo Street from Michigan Avenue then right going West with Hunter Park on the left going up the slight hill and then cuts to the top of the hill going towards Pennsylvania Ave. and onward toward downtown. I grew up on Kalamazoo Street on the left side of that slight hill, the only block that was cut from the film So close....😟 Nice to see a portion of my neighborhood, though. 🎵🎭
@@VictoriaKempPhotos Kool, Mom worked for them back in early 60's when she was Pregnant with me. Says thats why I love Peanuts so much. Parents separated Dad lived across street above from whats now Lugnuts Stadium in an Apt above Swanson's Clock Shop. My weekends with him we'd walk on down to News Stand, catch Movie at the Michigan or Gladmer Theaters and several times a yr pickup some Peanuts take home with us. Grandma and Great Grandma lived Block from where this Video starts off Kalamazoo. Was 3rd of 4 Generations to attend old Eastern High School. Wish people would post more these old Videos
This film brings tears to my eyes I have so many memories I used to live in Lansing for many years. I loved the people’s smiles doesn’t matter where to go shopping or go to Sparrow people have been nice and smiling. I live now in Europe and people are not very friendly and almost no smiles people. I really miss Michigan.
This crowd must remember the Schmidt's hot dog wagon every summer. Quarter for the dog. Dime for the ice cream. Nickel for the Pepsi. We would follow it around town to the different stores. Colonial Village for the win!
Lived at Prospect and Pennsylvania. Right across the street from Jay and Sam Vincent's dad. Not the big brown house on the corner, but the little one right next to it.
Ya know, those were my mother's dying words, but when you're covered in 3rd degree burns and got your foot caught in a bear trap you're bound to start talking crazy.
Thanks for posting. Thanks for all comments as well. I have been all my life. I live two blocks from my families home that my parents started in the 70s. Love Lansing. Still here. Still love it!!!!
I grew up there in the 60's and 70's. I used to ride the city bus downtown to meet my mom after work. I'd stop by the Mr.Peanut Roasted Peanut shop shop and the candle makers. There was a Woolworth's too.
It starts on Clifford St. I lived at 427 S Clifford st directly across the street from the entrance to Hunter Park. Swam there every summer for $0.10 cents. Use to have to sit on the long wooden benches to get in. Went to Allen St School too. Although I don't live in MI anymore it is fun to look back in time. St. Lawrence Hospital is where I was born. My mom worked there, then Sparrow, and my Uncle worked at Lansing General. Was there in August 2017 and went to the Lansing mall. I still remember when that was built. Holy crap i'm old....
I went to Jr.High right by Sparrow, at Pattengill. Last time I went back, it seems it had been torn down. My brother and sister graduated from Eastern.
We now live a block west of your home with a view to the entry to Hunter Park. Clifford and Kalamazoo and all the pavement looks great! Huh! The roads! The video predates my time here - great look at the town! It looks like 496 was under construction. It opened in Dec 1970, right? I was just out of high school, living in Ames, IA, but we made yearly visits to Grand Ledge and East Lansing to visit my mother's sister and mother. Time moves along!
This is so cool. I have lived in the Lansing area for over 35 years and this goes back even further than that! Thanks for this rare glimpse into the past :)
This feels like yesterday. I interviewed families that lived in the path of I496 , asking them where they would choose to be re-located to. Mr. Lett's organized several kids to do that from the Lincoln center. When I went to LCC, Washington was still passable. Nice to take this trip!
So many houses torn down to make way for the freeway. The house we lived in on E St. Joe when I was born was one of them. I think the biggest shame though, was that they tore down R.E. Olds mansion.
OMG I remember this time I would ride everywhere with my father paying bills or going to the store wow its so unreal how fast life goes by.Thank you for sharing this.I miss being in my home town of Lansing I lived there 43 years before having to move in 2006.Thanks for the look behind.:)
Almost made it to my house. We used to sneak into the Michigan Theater. We all lived on Center and Turner Street. North Lansing was our playground. Back when Woolworths DNC dime-store and glamour theater we're all there. And I'm still here. For now.
Should refilm this video and show them side by side to see what's changed over the years.. and what hasn't. Kind of surprising how many of those old buildings in this video are still there and being used today...
I agree on the period. I was born in 42, so this period would be after my college days and when I was in the service. My parents lived on Sunnyside. Did some Gut cruising in early 60's. I did see one Ford Falcon small van. I drove a smaller Plymouth Valiant convertible or Corvair Monza Convertible. Company gas guzzlers came later, but gas was cheap and paid by employers.
@@tbone4646 We lived at 1914 Sunnyside on the other side of Mt. Hope. My brother Mike and I went to Mt Hope, me from 49-54. A daughter owns the house now. People I knew on your side included Bill Noack, Hoffmeyer's, Mike Smith, John n Marshall, John and Jim Dye and other's of the older generation. Mr Wolfert was my 6th greade teacher.
@@Hornman64 Dave, my family lived next door to the Noacks. Bill is still one of my best friends and I'm still in contact with him and his sister Mary Jo, who was a few years older than Bill. I also remember the Marshall family who lived around the corner. I went to Mt Hope from '57-61. My 6th grade teacher was Mrs Van Deen. I'll bet we've met each other at some time in the far past. Amazing to connect on this thread.
@@tbone4646 Interesting! I used to try an play basketball against Bill in his driveway, which was a lost cause of course. I saw Bill at a couple of our Eastern reunions and he was still tall at that time. I recall there was a girl across from Bill's house that I had some contact with and a guy named Thayer? My brother , Mike was born in 46 and would have gone to Mt Hope a bit later than I .The school boundaries changed in 59 so he went to Everett and I stayed at Eastern for the Senior year, then MSU..I recall that Miss Knapp lived across from the golf course before you got to Lindbergh Drive but my memory is not always reliable. I'm on Face book as David William Rafferty.
@@Hornman64 That's amazing. We must have crossed paths at some time. I used to play basketball with Bill in his driveway and mine all the time. You're right...could never beat Bill. Too darn tall. I thing he was 6'10'' when he was playing at MSU. He's been quite sick the past few years. He has some form of cancer that he's fighting. I'm going to have to contact him again soon to find out how he's doing. If I get an update, I'll fill you in. I'm not on Facebook so it's either UA-cam info or email. Check in with you in the future weeks.
Has to be '69. Almost wondering if it could be fall of '68. I looked at the cars and I didn't see a single 1970 model car. I saw a few '69's and a lot of older cars, but if it was fall of '68 there would be a few '69 models on the street because new models come out in the summer of the previous year. One thing I learned from this video is that Lansing roads have sucked for more than 50 years...
What a great piece of film! Wish you had more. It really takes me back, I remember all the places in the film. Downtown was still a happening place, wish I could go back and just look around. 😌
Interesting footage, nice to see the old Michigan theatre sign, can anyone make out what movie was being shown? That would give a more certain time period when this was filmed. The LCC building shown was built in 1968 and the buildings across the street were torn down around 1973 to expand the campus. I would guess this dates from around 1969-70. Cool to see those older model cars as well.
I am thinking that at the beginning the driver is turning right onto Kalamazoo from Allen not Clifford, but could be wrong. I lived on Clifford as real little kid then moved to Fairview then Lake Lansing Road. But lived in Lansing all my life except for law school. At the end the driver is going north on Washington through downtown. I had forgotten the little wooden houses in the intersections.
No, it is Clifford st and not Allen st. I went to Allen St school from 1967 to 1970. If you look to the left side of the street after he makes the right onto Kalamazoo :49 seconds in you can see the old "Hunter Park" sign. Hunter park ran from Kalamazoo all the way up to 496. We use to sled down the hill of 496 in the winter time. Clifford St dead-ended into 496. My address was 427 S Clifford st. My house was directly across from the entrance to the park.
@@geoffreyvannerson1851 Yup and as he's going east on Kalamazoo, the film abruptly changes scenes just as he's approaching S. Holmes where I had my first apartment about 6 years later. Wish he would have kept filming for about 3 more seconds, I'd like to have seen that house. 😄
My Dad used to work at Wallace Optical between Kositchik's and the Bank of Lansing. I most certainly remember the boarded up sidewalk as we used to pick up Dad on the corner where the Gladmer theater was.
Even though I wasn't born until '75, I still could recognize most of the streets and neighborhoods that he was driving through! this has proven my theory that I would still know where I am if time travel ever became a reality?
Amazing that I could recognize much of where the car went, either from sight, signage or what was going on. Obviously late '60s (telling from what was going on with I-496), so WAY before my time, but still...
Nice edit, thanks for doing it. I obtained this footage (S8mm) in the early 2000s from an e-bay sale. I grew up in the area. It was with another reel not posted that dates the footage to late 60s, possibly '68 or '69. It would be nice if you could credit the Center for Home Movies as the source of the material, as there is time and expense in scanning and uploading.
Chad: I just saw this and updated the info... Could you post the other reel, the 3 of 3, I'm assuming that I could never find. Thanks for this great footage Chad!
Based on the MSU Schedule on Spartan Stadium (on the original movies), demolition of the north side of downtown and Sparrow Hospital, the state of construction on I-496 (the Olds Freeway), and the marquee on the Michigan Theater, these films seem to have been shot in Fall/Winter 67(-68?),
Awesome footage! By the way, the Michigan Theatre marquee says that they are playing "The Strangler". That came out in April 1964. The video can probably be dated to that time.
Great find! It is amazing how many things have changed, yet (comparing with Google Street View) how much is still the same. I especially liked the part driving through what is now the LCC campus. I'm almost positive I remember those streetlights still being there when I was a student there in the mid-late 90s - they always stood out to me for their old-school style.
Im 12 and live here now what a time it was old michigan was amazing i love it still but technology has ruined everything i wish i lived here in the 50s and 60s
When I was 12 years old, me and my brother were members Boy Scout Troop 216... We went to Michigan Avenue School, and West Junior High School... Those were good days for a kid growing up... the 50s through the 60s
I was 12 in 1973, you would have loved Lansing in the early '70's. I did have some fun. We wandered all over. I lived by 2 parks and we rode bikes and ice skated and sledded at Grosbeck Golf Course.
@@VictoriaKempPhotos Was 12-13 in 1973 myself. Agree, had 5 speed stick shift Schwinn. Rode it all over Lansing. Even road different smaller Bike on 496 just before they opened it for Cars
It is Clifford St. I lived at 427 S Clifford st directly across the street from the entrance to Hunter Park. Swam there every summer for $0.10 cents. Use to have to sit on the long wooden benches to get in. Went to Allen St School too. Although I don't live in MI anymore it is fun to look back in time. St. Lawrence Hospital is where I was born. My mom worked there, then Sparrow, and my Uncle worked at Lansing General. Was there in August 2017 and went to the Lansing mall. I still remember when that was built. Holy crap i'm old....
I remember my parents buying gas from the Shell station on Kalamazoo and Pennsylvania in the early 1970s. They could fill up the tank for $1 on those days. And we drove by the hardware store on k'zoo Street. Was it Kopietz Hardware?
Not quite. Gas was .33-36 Gallon in 60s-early 70's but it took 28 Gallons up average size car then. Funny thing is paid $1 Gallon in late 70s, $1(or less) in 80s, 90's, 2000's and in 2010's. A one month after Trump was in Office paid $1.31 gallon in Lansing, week later went back up to $1.50. Inflation, .32 cents in 1969 is $2.78 in 2023
Too bad you don't know what downtown was like or you wouldn't make such a ridiculous statement. The only two things down there that are left is The Peanut Shop and Kositcheks. You haven't a clue.
Yup, and we had a town that you didn't have to worry that someone would shoot you for a pair of tennis shoes or rob the store you were shopping in. We had a town where jerks didn't throw their trash in the streets, women weren't tatooed like a sailor and men knew enough to pull their pants up and not walk around with their dirty underwear showing. I'll take those days anytime compared to the crap we put up with now.
@@norigibson Every era has it's issues. I remember there were some gangs, but they were called bikers then. We used to shortcut through a field to get home and we'd be warned there would be a fight there and not go that way. But it was mostly more chill. I knew a lot of people on drugs. There were prostitutes a block from my school. I didn't have many worries and I wandered all over town from the north side.
@@norigibson Yup, originally built as Olds Tower the completed Capital National(still run by RE Olds), then Michigan National in the 50s. Even though name and signs long gone will still be Michigan National to me!
I've come back to this video many times over the past few years when I need a nostalgia fix. I wish there were more of these on UA-cam. I left Michigan in '71. It will always be my home town, and these videos provide me a home town fix. Thanks for posting. Lansing is Lake Lansing, Lansing Eastern Class of '71, Gladmer/Michigan Theaters, Free Spirit emporium, Arbaughs, Knapps, and many other things associated with the late 60s.
Eastern '72. We've got spirit, we've got fun, we're the class of Seventy-one!
@@lizburgess4398 Eastern '83
Every Michigander who leaves Michigan eventually returns, I was gone to Arizona for 36 years and back in Michigan for the last 15 years.
@@lizburgess4398 My brother was class of 72, other brother 70 and me - 77. Hi fellow Eastern Quaker!!! Judith Mitchell
I was born and raised in Lansing ❤ Everett class of 87, best days ever.
My brother went there, but I think he graduated in 88. His ex wife was class of 88, I think.
@@LaNoire27 I likely know them 🥰
Still here since 81. Wish it was still these times.
I was born in Lansing in 1948 and went to Mt. Hope Elementary, Walter French JHS, Everett HS, U of M and MSU. Been away from MI and all over the world since 1975 but Lansing's still my home. It keeps calling me back. Still have family and great friends there. It's fallen on hard times since the auto industry crash in the '80's and '90's, but it's still full of great people. Will go back when I die.
Construction started in '63 and it was opened in December '70, so according to that and the model years of the cars, I would say that around '67 would be the year. Saw a Renault 10 and they started selling in the fall of '67 as a '68 model. (My parents
bought a '69 R10.)
At 1:40, the car turns south on Cherry from Kalamazoo. If it were a block east on River St, I would get to see the house that my Dad grew up in during the '30s and '40s, but is no longer there. I've never seen it. The bare trees, overcast sky and twilight lighting gives the film a cold & nostalgic feel. I've been in Arizona for 50 years now and we very rarely get cold or overcast, but in my youth, cold and and overcast is what I knew. Grandpa spent 35 years at Olds starting in about 1925 and and played industrial league baseball for them.
Yes, before they built the mall and extended LCC to the east. There was a Kew-Pee's up on that part of Washington.
Roads were in much better shape than today.
Awesome video to bring back memories of my hometown. Born in Lansing back in 1952. Everett HS 1970 grad. My late father was the Deputy Fire Chief. Worked in the LFD 1950 until he retired in 1979. My mother was a secretary at Michigan State University at the Veterinary College. Both my parents were from Lansing. My father was born in Lansing in 1923 and my mother in 1926. I recognized the late model 1968 Cutlass in the video as my parents had that same model. Thanks for sharing this video of old Lansing Mi!
I like the fact that this film is just that: film. Not video tape or digital. The fact that the video quality and color are below par (by today's standards anyway) only adds to the look-back-in-time feel of this upload. Another thing that's cool about this film is that there are all sorts of local businesses open. Lots of them are gone now. At least Art's Bar is still there. :)
Agree! Film starts 2 Blocks from my Great Grandmas home, 6 from my Grandmas. Both gone now like 99% the Businesses. I rode my Bike on 496 few months before it opened, now the Highway looks about same as in the video as they are rebuilding it
Cool cars everywhere!
Remember M78 drive-in
Think video ends headed towards OldTown!!! Very Cool..
Wow, can tell it's good ol' Lansing with those fabulous Oldsmobiles. My dad, uncles, and aunt, and practically everybody I knew, had a relative or friend that was a factory rat. My dad worked at Fisher Body, painting the Cutlass line. We lived on Rosemary St, there were two Olds plants, and the Verlinden Ave. Fisher Body plant where within walking distance of our house. So, so sad. When Olds ended production in 2004, closing the plants, and eventually tearing them down. A piece of history only in our memories now. I still have my dad's Fisher Body work badge from 1958. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
it's crazy recognizing all of these places now. Seeing some of the buildings that were in this.
You can see the movie title pretty clearly at 3:36: "The Boston Strangler" (released October 1968) -- Tony Curtis & Henry Fonda. Hard to know exactly when this was shot since there is a bit of snow but no Christmas decorations.
notice Renault R 10 at 5.43..southbound on N. Washington. We had a burgandy R 10 back in the day....Lived on north end and my Dad ran a gas station at 229 W Grand River.....which is now a pot shop
❤😅Vintage Lansing, Mi love that jazz Great times
My oldest Daughter lives in Howell Michigan She was born and raised here in Fl My Husband and I go to visit My Daughter and her Husband once or twice a year been to this town Im pretty sure it changed alot since the 70es
Yes it has changed a lot I have lived here for over 30 years so I wasn’t here when this was filmed.
So close .. The video starts going south to Kalamazoo Street from Michigan Avenue then right going West with Hunter Park on the left going up the slight hill and then cuts to the top of the hill going towards Pennsylvania Ave. and onward toward downtown. I grew up on Kalamazoo Street on the left side of that slight hill, the only block that was cut from the film So close....😟 Nice to see a portion of my neighborhood, though. 🎵🎭
My home from 1939 until 1981. Many of those scenes brought back memories. And we always make a visit to the Peanut Shop when we are home.
The Peanut Shop is still here in 2019. Good stuff there.
@@amyk8238 At one time was an actual Planters Peanut Shop
@@firstsgt279 I went when it was that. My mom worked for the state, so I went after school, took the bus from my school to downtown.
@@VictoriaKempPhotos Kool, Mom worked for them back in early 60's when she was Pregnant with me. Says thats why I love Peanuts so much. Parents separated Dad lived across street above from whats now Lugnuts Stadium in an Apt above Swanson's Clock Shop. My weekends with him we'd walk on down to News Stand, catch Movie at the Michigan or Gladmer Theaters and several times a yr pickup some Peanuts take home with us. Grandma and Great Grandma lived Block from where this Video starts off Kalamazoo. Was 3rd of 4 Generations to attend old Eastern High School. Wish people would post more these old Videos
This film brings tears to my eyes I have so many memories I used to live in Lansing for many years. I loved the people’s smiles doesn’t matter where to go shopping or go to Sparrow people have been nice and smiling.
I live now in Europe and people are not very friendly and almost no smiles people.
I really miss Michigan.
very cool thanks
Thanks this was great
This crowd must remember the Schmidt's hot dog wagon every summer. Quarter for the dog. Dime for the ice cream. Nickel for the Pepsi. We would follow it around town to the different stores. Colonial Village for the win!
Lived at Prospect and Pennsylvania. Right across the street from Jay and Sam Vincent's dad. Not the big brown house on the corner, but the little one right next to it.
Yup, I went to School with Jay Vincent
Construction of I-496. Sorry about that.
This is my hometown and this video is just incredible. Thank you!
Ya know, those were my mother's dying words, but when you're covered in 3rd degree burns and got your foot caught in a bear trap you're bound to start talking crazy.
WTH????
Thanks for posting. Thanks for all comments as well. I have been all my life. I live two blocks from my families home that my parents started in the 70s. Love Lansing. Still here. Still love it!!!!
Piano brought to us via the sound styling of the master pianist George Duke , RIP George.
The 2:56 point is a car getting onto the Cross Bronx Expressway.
I grew up there in the 60's and 70's. I used to ride the city bus downtown to meet my mom after work. I'd stop by the Mr.Peanut Roasted Peanut shop shop and the candle makers. There was a Woolworth's too.
Yup, my Mother worked at the then Planters Peanuts 60yrs ago
It starts on Clifford St. I lived at 427 S Clifford st directly across the street from the entrance to Hunter Park. Swam there every summer for $0.10 cents. Use to have to sit on the long wooden benches to get in. Went to Allen St School too. Although I don't live in MI anymore it is fun to look back in time. St. Lawrence Hospital is where I was born. My mom worked there, then Sparrow, and my Uncle worked at Lansing General. Was there in August 2017 and went to the Lansing mall. I still remember when that was built. Holy crap i'm old....
You and me both lol
I went to allen street too
I went to Jr.High right by Sparrow, at Pattengill. Last time I went back, it seems it had been torn down. My brother and sister graduated from Eastern.
We now live a block west of your home with a view to the entry to Hunter Park. Clifford and Kalamazoo and all the pavement looks great! Huh! The roads! The video predates my time here - great look at the town! It looks like 496 was under construction. It opened in Dec 1970, right? I was just out of high school, living in Ames, IA, but we made yearly visits to Grand Ledge and East Lansing to visit my mother's sister and mother. Time moves along!
Nice Zelle Jewelry👍🏾.
This is so cool. I have lived in the Lansing area for over 35 years and this goes back even further than that! Thanks for this rare glimpse into the past :)
0:18 there's always a dang cat runnin around this city 💀
I love this video this my hometown its so cool to look back and see it in a different time.
This feels like yesterday. I interviewed families that lived in the path of I496 , asking them where they would choose to be re-located to. Mr. Lett's organized several kids to do that from the Lincoln center. When I went to LCC, Washington was still passable. Nice to take this trip!
So many houses torn down to make way for the freeway. The house we lived in on E St. Joe when I was born was one of them. I think the biggest shame though, was that they tore down R.E. Olds mansion.
I travel these streets everyday of my life! Love it! So cool to see!!
I wish they had continued filming, I was curious to see what Old Town looked like in those days.
Man, LCC was only one building then, now it takes up several blocks.
Thanks for bringing back old memories........sad had to move to Texas for work..........wish i was back home.......miss you LANSING MI !!!!!!
We did the same, though I don't miss Lansing much. I do miss Michigan though.
OMG I remember this time I would ride everywhere with my father paying bills or going to the store wow its so unreal how fast life goes by.Thank you for sharing this.I miss being in my home town of Lansing I lived there 43 years before having to move in 2006.Thanks for the look behind.:)
Do I see our red '57 Chevy station wagon on West Madison? Or are we parked at Knapp's?
Almost made it to my house. We used to sneak into the Michigan Theater. We all lived on Center and Turner Street. North Lansing was our playground. Back when Woolworths DNC dime-store and glamour theater we're all there. And I'm still here. For now.
I have some pictures from the photo booth in Woolworths, of me and my hubby, from 1978 or '79.
Wow...I dig those crazy tunes.
Should refilm this video and show them side by side to see what's changed over the years.. and what hasn't. Kind of surprising how many of those old buildings in this video are still there and being used today...
Thank you for posting this. It let me see what paths I travel often looked like before I was born in 1980
wtf i’m so sad lansing doesn’t look like this now
I agree on the period. I was born in 42, so this period would be after my college days and when I was in the service. My parents lived on Sunnyside. Did some Gut cruising in early 60's. I did see one Ford Falcon small van.
I drove a smaller Plymouth Valiant convertible or Corvair Monza Convertible. Company gas guzzlers came later, but gas was cheap and paid by employers.
I lived at 1716 Sunnyside in the late '50's to early '60's . Went to Mt. Hope Elementary School. You?
@@tbone4646 We lived at 1914 Sunnyside on the other side of Mt. Hope. My brother Mike and I went to Mt Hope, me from 49-54. A daughter owns the house now. People I knew on your side included Bill Noack, Hoffmeyer's, Mike Smith, John n Marshall, John and Jim Dye and other's of the older generation. Mr Wolfert was my 6th greade teacher.
@@Hornman64 Dave, my family lived next door to the Noacks. Bill is still one of my best friends and I'm still in contact with him and his sister Mary Jo, who was a few years older than Bill. I also remember the Marshall family who lived around the corner. I went to Mt Hope from '57-61. My 6th grade teacher was Mrs Van Deen. I'll bet we've met each other at some time in the far past. Amazing to connect on this thread.
@@tbone4646 Interesting! I used to try an play basketball against Bill in his driveway, which was a lost cause of course. I saw Bill at a couple of our Eastern reunions and he was still tall at that time. I recall there was a girl across from Bill's house that I had some contact with and a guy named Thayer? My brother , Mike was born in 46 and would have gone to Mt Hope a bit later than I .The school boundaries changed in 59 so he went to Everett and I stayed at Eastern for the Senior year, then MSU..I recall that Miss Knapp lived across from the golf course before you got to Lindbergh Drive but my memory is not always reliable. I'm on Face book as David William Rafferty.
@@Hornman64 That's amazing. We must have crossed paths at some time. I used to play basketball with Bill in his driveway and mine all the time. You're right...could never beat Bill. Too darn tall. I thing he was 6'10'' when he was playing at MSU. He's been quite sick the past few years. He has some form of cancer that he's fighting. I'm going to have to contact him again soon to find out how he's doing. If I get an update, I'll fill you in. I'm not on Facebook so it's either UA-cam info or email. Check in with you in the future weeks.
From Lansing, moved to Colorado in 1984. I was born in St Joseph hospital, thank you so much for posting the video!!! Joseph.
Great video. I grew up in lansing but this is way b4 my time. Nice seeing how many city looked back n the day
Has to be '69. Almost wondering if it could be fall of '68. I looked at the cars and I didn't see a single 1970 model car. I saw a few '69's and a lot of older cars, but if it was fall of '68 there would be a few '69 models on the street because new models come out in the summer of the previous year.
One thing I learned from this video is that Lansing roads have sucked for more than 50 years...
Thank You :) Its so nice to go back and remember better days. I would go back and do it all again if I could.
Thanks a lot for uploading!!!
What a great piece of film! Wish you had more. It really takes me back, I remember all the places in the film. Downtown was still a happening place, wish I could go back and just look around. 😌
Enjoyed seeing this video. Thanks for posting it. Fran
Amazing, the highway was under construction...
At one point we lived at a duplex on the corner of main and birch streets...
The freeway took it...memories
Interesting footage, nice to see the old Michigan theatre sign, can anyone make out
what movie was being shown? That would give a more certain time period when this
was filmed. The LCC building shown was built in 1968 and the buildings across the
street were torn down around 1973 to expand the campus. I would guess this dates
from around 1969-70. Cool to see those older model cars as well.
(two words) Strangler, I'm guessing.
The Boston Strangler w/Tony Curtis & Henry Fonda released late 1968
Oh, God. At 2:40 I think that was my mom driving that Cutlass.
What year is this footage taken? Looks like mid 60s, as it was easy to spot the 496 destruction gap.
The Link for Reel 3 doesn't work
I listened to sous by cemeteries while watching this and its perfect. It's amazing to see what my city looked like back then.
LOVE IT! Thank you!
The most recent car I could identify was a '68 Cutlass. I-496 was built between 1963 and 1970.
Why does Lansing look better than it does now?😭
More people lived and shopped in Lansing when this was filmed then today. Lansing then had great middle class, had 20K+ at Oldsmobile alone.
My dad used to shine shoes at kositcheks...
Mansfield Joseph Morris...I miss him...
My grandpa bought me my first suit from Kositcheks. Haven’t thought of that in years and I’d bet my grandpa might have known your dad.
I am thinking that at the beginning the driver is turning right onto Kalamazoo from Allen not Clifford, but could be wrong. I lived on Clifford as real little kid then moved to Fairview then Lake Lansing Road. But lived in Lansing all my life except for law school. At the end the driver is going north on Washington through downtown. I had forgotten the little wooden houses in the intersections.
No, it is Clifford st and not Allen st. I went to Allen St school from 1967 to 1970. If you look to the left side of the street after he makes the right onto Kalamazoo :49 seconds in you can see the old "Hunter Park" sign. Hunter park ran from Kalamazoo all the way up to 496. We use to sled down the hill of 496 in the winter time. Clifford St dead-ended into 496. My address was 427 S Clifford st. My house was directly across from the entrance to the park.
@@geoffreyvannerson1851 Yup and as he's going east on Kalamazoo, the film abruptly changes scenes just as he's approaching S. Holmes where I had my first apartment about 6 years later. Wish he would have kept filming for about 3 more seconds, I'd like to have seen that house. 😄
My Dad used to work at Wallace Optical between Kositchik's and the Bank of Lansing. I most certainly remember the boarded up sidewalk as we used to pick up Dad on the corner where the Gladmer theater was.
My cousins have lived in Lansing for over sixty years, and now the younger Millennials are interested in Lansing as well.
Even though I wasn't born until '75, I still could recognize most of the streets and neighborhoods that he was driving through! this has proven my theory that I would still know where I am if time travel ever became a reality?
Lansing looked good then. Unlike now.
Moved to Lansing in summer '68. Everett HS class of 73.
I left Lansing Michigan in 1991. I was there since '78. Old memories
Amazing that I could recognize much of where the car went, either from sight, signage or what was going on. Obviously late '60s (telling from what was going on with I-496), so WAY before my time, but still...
Yup, 1968. I road my Bike on 496 in 70 before opened to traffic
Hello Matt, great footage Lansing. I'm doing a documentary on Lansing and would love to use this footage. Can you grant me permission?
This is awesome! This ends right before my neighborhood--bummer!
Lansing was a good place to grow up years ago. Thanks for posting the video; it was a bit before my time (I was born in 68) but still a real treat.
Nice edit, thanks for doing it. I obtained this footage (S8mm) in the early 2000s from an e-bay sale. I grew up in the area. It was with another reel not posted that dates the footage to late 60s, possibly '68 or '69. It would be nice if you could credit the Center for Home Movies as the source of the material, as there is time and expense in scanning and uploading.
Chad: I just saw this and updated the info... Could you post the other reel, the 3 of 3, I'm assuming that I could never find. Thanks for this great footage Chad!
1969 0r 70 my dad owned a rental their on st joe. i remember watching them build 496
Great music Matt.
Based on the MSU Schedule on Spartan Stadium (on the original movies), demolition of the north side of downtown and Sparrow Hospital, the state of construction on I-496 (the Olds Freeway), and the marquee on the Michigan Theater, these films seem to have been shot in Fall/Winter 67(-68?),
Correct, Filmed in 68
That was a great trip down memory lane!
Don't forget Kositchek's and Kewpees! Nice footage.
Awesome footage! By the way, the Michigan Theatre marquee says that they are playing "The Strangler". That came out in April 1964. The video can probably be dated to that time.
The Boston Strangler (Winter 1968-9) -- Tony Curtis & Henry Fonda
At one point, the car from which the filming was done is following behind a 1968 Cutlass, so yeah '64 would be too early.
All those V8s !
Great find! It is amazing how many things have changed, yet (comparing with Google Street View) how much is still the same. I especially liked the part driving through what is now the LCC campus. I'm almost positive I remember those streetlights still being there when I was a student there in the mid-late 90s - they always stood out to me for their old-school style.
Im 12 and live here now what a time it was old michigan was amazing i love it still but technology has ruined everything i wish i lived here in the 50s and 60s
When I was 12 years old, me and my brother were members Boy Scout Troop 216... We went to Michigan Avenue School, and West Junior High School... Those were good days for a kid growing up... the 50s through the 60s
I was 12 in 1973, you would have loved Lansing in the early '70's. I did have some fun. We wandered all over. I lived by 2 parks and we rode bikes and ice skated and sledded at Grosbeck Golf Course.
Don't be black
@@VictoriaKempPhotos Was 12-13 in 1973 myself. Agree, had 5 speed stick shift Schwinn. Rode it all over Lansing. Even road different smaller Bike on 496 just before they opened it for Cars
The street that this starts on is Clifford street, I'm about 99 percent sure.
It is Clifford St. I lived at 427 S Clifford st directly across the street from the entrance to Hunter Park. Swam there every summer for $0.10 cents. Use to have to sit on the long wooden benches to get in. Went to Allen St School too. Although I don't live in MI anymore it is fun to look back in time. St. Lawrence Hospital is where I was born. My mom worked there, then Sparrow, and my Uncle worked at Lansing General. Was there in August 2017 and went to the Lansing mall. I still remember when that was built. Holy crap i'm old....
I remember my parents buying gas from the Shell station on Kalamazoo and Pennsylvania in the early 1970s. They could fill up the tank for $1 on those days. And we drove by the hardware store on k'zoo Street. Was it Kopietz Hardware?
Not quite. Gas was .33-36 Gallon in 60s-early 70's but it took 28 Gallons up average size car then. Funny thing is paid $1 Gallon in late 70s, $1(or less) in 80s, 90's, 2000's and in 2010's. A one month after Trump was in Office paid $1.31 gallon in Lansing, week later went back up to $1.50. Inflation, .32 cents in 1969 is $2.78 in 2023
so it starts going south to kali and then just a few blocks west of clemens.
Downtown hasn't changed a bit
Too bad you don't know what downtown was like or you wouldn't make such a ridiculous statement. The only two things down there that are left is The Peanut Shop and Kositcheks. You haven't a clue.
very nice. lived in Lansing 68-73.
grate vid. I retired from The City Of Lansing in 2013.
The Peanut Shop is still here ua-cam.com/video/7Uns7ajf8Sc/v-deo.htmlm48s
Lots of large gas guzzlers, very few trucks and zero minivans.
Yup, and we had a town that you didn't have to worry that someone would shoot you for a pair of tennis shoes or rob the store you were shopping in. We had a town where jerks didn't throw their trash in the streets, women weren't tatooed like a sailor and men knew enough to pull their pants up and not walk around with their dirty underwear showing. I'll take those days anytime compared to the crap we put up with now.
@@norigibson Every era has it's issues. I remember there were some gangs, but they were called bikers then. We used to shortcut through a field to get home and we'd be warned there would be a fight there and not go that way. But it was mostly more chill. I knew a lot of people on drugs. There were prostitutes a block from my school. I didn't have many worries and I wandered all over town from the north side.
Strange to not see sparrow hospital or the bonji tower in the skyline.. downtown is pretty nice now not as many people tho
The Michigan National Tower has been there since the depression, back when people acted like they had some brains.
@@norigibson Yup, originally built as Olds Tower the completed Capital National(still run by RE Olds), then Michigan National in the 50s. Even though name and signs long gone will still be Michigan National to me!
I think the Gut changed to a parking mall in 1970 , cause of hot rodders and cruisers,Wasn't Me!!!
can you possibly find more old Lansing footage?
this.is.awesome!